American Cinematographer - November 2016 - 48

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Rising Up
The crew
prepares a
large exterior
set on location
in Georgia.

foliage was so thick on those plantations
that you really had to calculate how far
away from it you wanted to get before all
of [the light] was soaked up by the
greenery you were fighting through."
Davis would use the Pars to get a
rim light on dark figures at night and to
backlight mist. "If you light the mist, you
light the woods. People can silhouette

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against that," he says. "It's also homogeneous with rim light. You feel like there's
a source. I did let areas go dark or let
people go dark and play them very
silhouettey, to the point where they
almost became abstract - like the slave
hunters when they find Nat's father in
the road; that's a very painterly, beautiful
shot. It was simply one of those big

condor arrays of Par lights at the end of the
road with a bit of mist, some edge light on
the actors, and a little bit of fill, and that
was it. That's basically how I had to do the
night scenes."
For soft fill, Riffel brought four
special items made by a friend - "Jay
Yowler, who is a fellow gaffer and one of
four partners at Quasar Science," Riffel
says. "We nicknamed [the units]
'Lumenatti': a metal box with four LED
tubes that change color very easily, with 90degree directional crates. That was one of
the things that helped us move along. If
you needed to add a little warmth to match
the Par backlight, which was 1⁄2 CTB on
tungsten, you could blend it very easily
without having to wait for a piece of gel to
come in. The LED world has made things
very efficient."
The Lumenatti were particularly
useful when Davis lit with units close to or
directly on the ground, a technique in line
with the cinematographer's interest in light
that appears to be reflected off of surfaces.



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